ABSTRACT
Cobbett died in 1835 at the age of seventy-two, but these texts, taken from a four-year period between 1830 and 1834, are by no means the writings of retirement or retreat. They begin with Cobbett’s influential response to the Captain Swing riots in his newly-launched Twopenny Trash, and end with his Legacy to Labourers which is in many ways a summation of the most important aspects of his thought on legal and Constitutional matters.
